I don't mean to come off as uninformed or stupid & I just cannot be bothered reading tons of info spread around all over the place. But could somebody kindly explain to me, in a nutshell, what exactly is the deal with the hashlets or whatever they are called? I remember reading about Hashlets in an email from GAW months ago, but I thought it sounded too good to be true & passed. Then while checking their site later for actual hardware, I just saw the hardware replaced by different versions of these virtual miners with different names. HashStakers, Hashlets, etc.. What I want to know is the evolution of these & what that all was? I saw people were buying them, selling them for a profit but only the early buyers etc.. Can somebody give me the TLDR version explaining what the heck that was all about?
Also, what the hell is a prime controller exactly & why do people at HT covet them so much? I mean, people post in HT saying they have a Prime Controller & the GAW faitful are all like "Ooooh, Ahhhh" or simply don't believe the poster about having one because they are expensive or something?
To be honest, once they stopped selling actual hardware, I lost interest in GAW & figured they would go away. I can't believe they made a coin & things have gotten to the point they have.
Thanks.
Hashlets were cloud miners that payed BTC everyday and there 5 different versions of them based on what mining pool their payments were based off of. I believe there were clever(clevermining), Waffle(wafflepool), zen(zenminer), and prime(could mine any pool). HashStakers are online staking wallet for xpy so put 1 xpy and after 3 or 6 months depending on which one you bought you would earn more xpy over time from staking. Prime Controllers are the controllers of the xpy blockchain and get ridiculous payouts from staking some up to 350%.
Cool, thanks for answering. Honestly, when I bought a few miners over the summer, I did a little googling of GAW before purchasing & saw the posts about him ripping off ebay sellers for miners & thought to myself "Damn, this guy came a long way from buying a few miners on ebay to hosting & selling miners on his own". Why did GAW go the route of fake miners/hashlets? Am I naive in thinking they had a decent thing going, selling hardware & hosted hardware? What an idiot, if I had gone from buying my little ANT Miners to where GAW was over the summer, I would be happy, not greedy.